Evan, a young man, faces ridicule for being a virgin and never having been in a fight. After a particularly humiliating incident, he decides to confront one of these challenges-but it won't be losing his virginity. Instead, he takes to the streets, offering random strangers ten dollars to punch him in the face.
It's been a year since Killarna tried to take her own life, today is her 18th birthday, and things are slowly starting to feel ok again, but not all is as it seems.
Stop Motion – a dancer as filmmaker dispenses with superfluous movements and surrenders himself to that (individual and social) state in a villa in Brittany that the French philosopher Paul Virilio described as "frantic standstill." Frame by frame, Paul Wenninger "stands" through circles in what was initially a completely empty salon.
A disgruntled Sesame Street-esque teacher wants to do more with his life than teach shapes and letters. That night, he is visited by 3 professors who guide him through an emotional journey and reveal to him the hard truth of their reality… This is a Remaster / Definitive Edition of a 2024 Short Film we made for a Cinematography class. This version has brand new color grading, new scenes, fixed audio, and a whole new original soundtrack. Premiered at ACT KU's First Annual Film Festival and Showing at DREXEL'S Sillydelphia Film Festival on May 30th.
A student short film exploring the internal breakdown of a guy who transforms from an open, helpful person into someone consumed by isolation, parties, and pills. After being attacked at a party, he wakes up alone in an abandoned house - while Radiohead’s “How to Disappear Completely” plays. The film ends with a haunting post-credits scene where partygoers, indifferent to his absence, continue their night, leaving it unclear whether he was ever truly there, or if his existence was all in his mind.
Maria and Carlos are at a breaking point in their respective relationships. One feels absorbed and silenced by a boyfriend who only talks about himself. The other feels an insurmountable distance from a girlfriend dominated by a silence that does not respond to him. Both are unhappy. Both know what they have to do, but neither does it... Are they simply two sides of the same coin?
Years ago, Esther encountered a mysterious figure and something happened, she didn't realize her wants in life were granted, but the figure has now returned to collect payment for what she was given.
A dysfunctional family sits down to kick their brother out of the family through a new legal process known as familial emancipation, only to begin arguing about who their father’s favorite child is. As secrets are revealed, things take a turn for the tragic and violent.
Two young girls search out their respective fates and futures in 60's Hollywood, amidst confusion from their personal lives and an envelope that shed light on destiny.
A complex web of emotions which unfolds the grounding difference between love & predilection. An underlying, but prominent current of class difference between Indrajit & Zoya, brings clarity to the waters that they're in.
Despite growing up in a single-parent household, Maria was never that close with her mother. As an adult herself, she is thrust into being responsible after her mother suddenly dies. As she sorts through her mother’s belongings, she finds CDs, photographs, a diary, and an unplayable demo tape named “MARIA” that her mother had collected when she was around Maria’s age. Curious about her mother’s past, Maria heads to a live music club and this is where she encounters the musical culture of… Visual Kei.
Zahra, who is in the last trimester of pregnancy, works as a machinist in a vast clothing factory. Her wages are barely enough to live day to day; her husband went away looking for work and she has no idea where he is. When she is told that she must have her baby delivered by Caesarean, she has no idea how she will pay for it. Then a snippet of discussion on the radio suggests to her a desperate plan to save herself and her baby. An exceptionally well-made slice of social realism about a world where it’s every woman for herself.